01 February 2026
Candle light vigil for Alex Jeffrey Pretti, murdered by U.S. Border Control in Minneapolis, 24 January 2026. VA Hospital, San Francisco, California - 27 January 2026. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Having just returned from a week in Los Angeles and San Pedro doing photos from the “From the MM&P Hiring Hall project, as well as a few walk arounds in downtown LA, the next few “Maybe This Week, Maybe next Week” posts will be images from that trip.
St Vincent Court at 7th Street is really just an alley incarnation of where St. Vincent's College was in 1865. The college started by Vincentian Fathers the first in Southern California. St. In 1911 it became L.A. College, and Loyola Marymount University in 1917. As downtown L.A. has gone through many changes since 1917, so to this “court”. It now seems to be attempting a makeover as a small European style street of eateries. Photo: Robert Gumpert 25 January 2026
Once the heat of Los Angeles’ theatre and commercial district, Broadway, looking west towards 6th Street, is now a mix of trendy commercial and entertainment locations and home to many of LA’s unhoused. Downtown Los Angeles, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 25 January 2026
Living in the shadow of the Los Angeles The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, near Little Toyko and at the edge of the Art’s District, as well as in one direction down the street from Metropolitan Detention Center and in the other, the center of the organized unhoused community. Photo: Robert Gumpert 24 January 2026
Sleeping rough in the light of ad in the window of a vacant commercial building on 7th, just west of Broadway. Downtown Los Angeles. Photo: Robert Gumpert 25 January 2026
A few articles from Dystopia
A Note From the Editors on Alex Pretti’s Passing - Patricia Jakel, MN, RN, AOCN, Stephanie Desrosiers, DNP, MSN, RN, AOCNS, BMTCN - Oncology Nursing News
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are - Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik NYT
ICE’s surveillance app is a techno-authoritarian nightmare - Moustafa Bayoumi - The Guardian
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people - Jude Joffe-Block - NPR
The Legal Case Against Ring’s Face Recognition Feature - MARIO TRUJILLO - Electronic Frontier Foundation
Analyzing claim ICE can use Ring doorbells as mass surveillance tools - Emery Winter - Snopes
How liberals lost the internet - by Robert Topinka - The Guardian
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